Each night our family shared the Gospel in evening concerts, during the daytime we went to public schools, pray over the Mayors in some of the villages/towns to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The following is a result of our team (our family, P&A from Asia and Chris Hawes), in the TWO weeks time . . .6,732 heard the Gospel6,210 received Jesus as their Lord and savior 925 received prayer from our prayer lines 113 Bible studies started 1 church started

Many of the Bible studies grow into churches! Hallelujah! What a privilege to be a part of this ministry.

Your prayers made such a difference!

Honestly, when I heard about the progress of the typhoon from our leadership, there was a point where I didn't know if we would be separated from our children or ever see them again that day. That is when I texted/emailed you, friends and family back home to pray. Truly, we believe we experienced a miracle in that the destruction was WAY less than predicted in our area. We believe it was your prayers that made ALL the difference. Thank you for standing with us. Only heaven knows the total impact of your faithfulness to lift up our family and team before the throne.

We look forward to sharing MORE of what the Lord did during our trip. We serve an AMAZING God.

In all sensitivity, there were many that were devastated by the typhoon. One of our dear team members, Gracey, (lead singer and sister in the Lord) traveled back to her home now without a roof and all the belongings in the home destroyed by the rain and flooding from the typhoon. Praise God her parents (pastors) were safe and are alive.

The average wage for the Filipinos is about $4/day. How long will it take for some of these pastors, their families re-build their home? It may take a L O N G time. Please read the updated post on how to send funds to help. The donations are tax deductible and all 100% of relief funds will be directed through local pastors whom CMC has standing relationships with each province affected. No administration costs are taken out.

House to house evangelism. Our team would go door to door to share about Jesus and pray for folks. We would also invite them to the evening's concert.

Daytime Activity: Pastor Jill Boyonas translating our message at one of the high schools.

We were blessed to have Charity's mom (Auntie Inday) SAFELY join our team in the second half our our trip. She was a good participant and a joy to have around. Be sure to find her in the team video!

Hanna on a bench while waiting for the shuttle to a hotel Korean Air provided for our 12-hour layover.

Our final activity in Korea at the Korean Cultural Center before boarding to come home. They had FREE arts and crafts and activities to learn about the Korean culture. Had we known we could've spent more time here--we highly recommended it.

This is how we were able to manage on the plane. Overall, Brian calculated over 50-hours travel coming home. We would do it again.

God has granted favor as we minister to the people in the Philippines. Here is a picture of our team ministering to the Mayor of Gumaca. He is a believer and was touched to the point of tears that we would pray for his city and his leadership. The second mayor (of Antimonan) was not a believer but God gave us a plan and words to pray over him. In the end, his eyes revealed that he too was blessed.

God granted us much favor. The Above mayor's jurisdiction was over 59 viliages, 20 have churches with a population of over 70,000. God will surely bless his territory.

Abigail with her interpreter for door to door evangelism.

Already we have shared the Gospel to thousands who have not heard a adequate presentation of the Gospel before. This young man was one of the students (a Christian) that we shared the Gospel to at his public high school. We challenged him to share using our large Evangecube. The ONE Bible study that had been held at his school had been closed down so our coming brought renewed hope and affirmation for the Christian teacher. Apparently, on the map, the Philippines is considered a "Christian" nation (predominantly Catholic) yet many are only familiar with the death and NOT the resurrection of Jesus and why He came. So it's only about 12% evangelical Christians.

Due to the super typhoon Yolanda, our two school outreahes were cancelled as the schools were closed. So this afternoon, we will be praying for the sick at a hospital nearby then directly to the concert/crusade. Eden will be sharing a Gospel message tonight. We are told that she is good--looking forward to hearing her share about Jesus.A group of us went by the sea to worship and pray for the typhoon to be re-routed and dissipate. Will you agree with us in prayer? Please pray that the rains cease and that the the people are not discouraged to come to the evening concerts?

This is the view from our room before the typhoon hit our area. We are in a pension house (the equivelent of an older Motel 6 in America). We were fortunate in that we didn't have to use our own bedding as it seems that these had been changed and cleaned.

Posting Marcy's update on Typhoon Yolanda in our area.

Backtracking . . . UPON ARRIVAL:

Our journey took 34-hours from North Fork at 3:45a with a 2-hr layover in Korea, then to our final destination in Lucena City at 4am (that's 1pm California time). We were blessed with a peaceful journey, the children did very well and the only complication was that the interrupted sleep for our babies (Hanna & Lilja) caused them to be sensitive to waking up easily. That only took a day of uninterrupted sleep to catch up and now they're sleeping well.

Tired Callises

We were blesssed to run into Philip and Ashley while on our way to immigration and customs!

Then outside waiting for us was EDEN to pick us up and take us to our home base several hours away!

On our first leg of our jouney we partnered with Pastor Powel Lemons (Fresno) and Jonathan Morris' (Malibu) team. However, since many of the team had traveled with CMC to the three national conferences weeks prior, many had already left. We were privileged to meet with some incredible people.

This is Omar from Venezuela. A man on fire for God and was already awake all hours of the night mobilizing leaders and pastors in his country to utilize CMC for evangelization and church planting. Hallelujah!

This is new believer Cassandra (just SEVEN weeks old) already sharing her testimony and the Gospel. You may recognize her from Hollywood as a model and actress (soap opera: Young and the Restless, among others).